A character with a limited Voluntary Shapeshifting power, that results in his body acting like it is made of rubber. This can be a very versatile ability as long as the user is creative and not afraid to look silly, though the silliness potential means this tends to be a power given to Fun Personified characters.

Such characters often have powers that work less like having a body with high elasticity and more like the ability to change shape at will, which makes shaping oneself into rubber balls, balloons and bands, flattening against walls, pretending to be a funny-colored rug, gliding like a parasail or folding oneself into a paper airplane all totally plausible. They can be also resistant to physical attacks since they can stretch to absorb the momentum of a projectile or fist and maybe even snap back as a counter attack. What exactly becomes of one's bodily fluids and organs is, of course, never addressed (unless written by Warren Ellis who explains all for Ultimate Mr. Fantastic). This power often includes a resistance to electricity and a resistance (or vulnerability) to heat on the presumption that gaining rubber-like stretching abilities also conveys other rubber-like characteristics, never mind that most "rubber" is actually plastic these days.

More adult-oriented media will often explore the obvious Power Perversion Potential implicit in these powers assumingthey can be applied to body parts ordinary people can't consciously move. A sufficiently bawdy writer might point out that stretching and reshaping other appendages could still be greatly appreciated by one's partner and make Anatomically Impossible Sex a little less implausible. One could just imagine the many possibilities involving new and exciting positions even if most haven't been already imagined for you on various places around the internet. Many involve bondage, a fetish that seems tailor made for rubber man powers, and may include a lot of rubber (or at least PVC) already.

As a note, he's more literally rubber than most examples—it requires energy for him to stretch himself, when released he snaps back into shape, and he's completely immune to electricity and most blunt-force attacks (like maces). He can also use his rubber properties to make his blood flow at a rate that would normally make one's heart explode, exponentially increasing his strength and speed for as long as it lastsnote Gear Second, dubbed Second Gear, or inflate his bones to be large enough to crush a battleship with one attack.note Gear Third, dubbed Third Gear He later learns how to inflate his muscles rather than his bones, and to pump his entire body's matter around rather than just his blood, essentially combining both Gears and taking them even further. This essentially allows him to strike by ejecting his limbs rather than kicking or punching, at such high speeds that he punched someone across an entire island. This, combined with all his other techniques, is what he calls Gear Fourth.

Udono Jousuke from Basilisk uses his body fat to turn his body pretty much into a living bouncing ball.

Also Azuki Rousai who can stretch his limbs. The two even clash a bit.

Majin Buu from Dragon Ball, being made of pink bubblegum-like goo, puts most people with this power to shame. As well as stretching his limbs and twisting his body in ways that would make a contortionist blush, he can engulf people with his own body mass (even pieces that have been torn off him!) to absorb them.

Piccolo has also been seen to be able to extend his arms and turn into a giant.

The Speed Grapher character Katsuya Shirogane is a murderous version. He originally was an obsessive ballet dancer and few more, but after getting involved with Suitengu's group, he received this power and became this trope.

Although not rubbery, Hokushin (who's based off the Rokurokubi from Japanese legends) from YuYu Hakusho has an incredibly stretchy body, claiming to be able to extend his parts at least 20 kilometers.

The first youma to appear in Sailor Moon, Morga, elongated her arm at one point, but it is unknown if she could do this with her other limbs.

Plastic Man, originally of Quality Comics, has the classic jokester personality. Ironically, he started as a serious guy with somewhat silly powers who evolved into a fairly ridiculous character who came up with progressively more bizarre shapes to assume (although even at the end of his first appearance, he commented, "Fighting crime sure is fun!")

Offspring, Plastic Man's son in Kingdom Come, is a completely dour and serious individual who is sick of the "silly stretcher" stereotype and can't stand his father.

In the comics, on the rare occasions where Elongated Man and Plastic Man meet up, a bit of friction between them becomes apparent; Plastic Man's powers are straight up better, pretty much making him a shape shifter, but Elongated Man can simply... become longer, not change shape. On the other hand, Elongated Man is a brilliant detective said to be Batman's equal.

Among the various superheroic personas adopted by Jimmy Olsen during the Silver Age is "Elastic Lad". This eventually leads to an issue of DC Comics Presents where the three stretching heroes are teamed up with Superman to fight a one-shot villain who also haa stretching powers.

Elastigirl of the Doom Patrol, pre-dating The Incredibles by nearly forty years, is a stretcher (who admittedly rarely changes shapes) who can also grow and shrink. Her size-changing powers are the only ones she uses on Teen Titans.

A female stretcher is the villainous Madame Rouge (not Rogue!) of the original Brotherhood of Evil. See also, her "daughter" Gemini.

Although he has been known to goof around with his powers, particularly while playing with his children.

Two What If? comics gave Sue this power instead of her invisibility and force fields, making for a rare aversion of the "always male" aspect. What If #6 gave all the four different power sets; What If volume 2 #11 used four short stories to give them all the same powers. In the second one Sue was annoyed at her "silly-looking" power. She married Ben and supposedly they never used their powers again. In the first story, however, she loved her powers and was a much more proactive superheroine than the main Marvel counterpart at the time. This Sue also married Ben, since Reed had mutated into a giant brain which obviously couldn't suit her physical needs.

Warren Ellis, being Warren Ellis, gave him a plausible if slightly Squicky anatomy; no internal organs save a pliable aerobic bacterial stack that isn't torn by his stretching. That's right, tropers. He's a human stress ball with a sourdough starter for a heart.

Val Ventura, aka Flatman, from GLA is one of these. Like his teammates, he's often portrayed comically and is typically seen being tied into knots or twisted into various shapes.

One of Spider-Girl's villains is a Cloudcuckoolander named "Mr. Abnormal", whose name describes his personality. Ironically, he seems to be more creative with his powers than Mr. Fantastic, shaping his limbs into such things as nets, tennis rackets, ramming horns, and elephant's feet. Being that he was actually a pastiche of Plastic Man, this makes perfect sense.

Super Skrull, being All Your Powers Combined esque for the Fantastic Four of course has this power as well. Once he´s used this and the Thing´s superdurability to make paper thin razor wire of himself. Pretty awesomesauce.

Xavin from Runaways has the same powers as the Super Skrull, but can only use them one at a time.

Angelo Espinosa, a.k.a. Skin from Generation X, possessed approximately six feet of extra skin. He was capable of stretching, deforming, wrapping, expanding, and compressing this extra amount of epidermis like all the other examples on this page, but in much more limited ways; where Mr. Fantastic might be able to reach across or even around a city block, Angelo would strain to reach across a street. In addition, he had very little elasticity, and his bones remained solid and couldn't be reshaped. He could never turn into a bouncing ball; even if he could reshape himself enough for that, he wouldn't bounce.

Wildguard: Casting Call featured two: Longfellow, whose catchy name and snappy costume couldn't make up for his dreadful personality, and Snapback, a friendly, energetic guy with something to prove and an overbearing girlfriend. Snapback's previous superteam experience gave him the definite edge and eventually drove him to make the team itself.

The tendency for this powerset to belong to a goofy character is mentioned by Snapback's bitter Tri-County Power Patrol teammate Sandoval, who tries to dissuade him from entering because "stretchy guys are only ever used for comic relief."

Alan Moore's Top 10 briefly featured "Dr. Incredible", modeled after Mr. Fantastic. Smax calls him a "blob-job", to which he responds, "I don't gotta put up with that shapeist stuff!" Dr. Incredible, however, is an old washed up hero who smacks his wife; not a fun loving guy.

Big Bang Comics' Protoplasman, who, like all Big Bang heroes, is a pastiche of a Silver Age DC character, in this case Plastic Man.

Hack/Slash had a disturbing variant in the form of Monster Clown Mortimer Strick. His skin doesn't stretch, his bones do.

Rubberman, a villain from Air Fighters Comics, could stretch his body and even deflect bullets.

Rubbernecker, from Adam Warren's Empowered has this; despite his name, he can elongate his neck, his limbs, and his torso, and when he swings his mace-encased fists or mace-helemeted head at someone, can do a great deal of damage.

Ping the Elastic Man: A character from the Anthology ComicThe Beano, he first appeared in the comic's first issue back in 1938. His Rubber Man abilities are often Played for Laughs with the character ending up being tied in knots at the end of the strip.

Polly Mer from PS238. Yes, that's her real name. It's implied her father has a really bad sense of humor and her mother is none too fond of it.

Lastikman, a Filipino superhero from Mars Ravelo, the same creator behind Darna.

The recurring villain Shapeshifter from Elementals could do this, when she wasn't morphed into a real or imaginary creature's form.

The Ten-Seconders: The Scientist is able to bend and extend his body as much as he wants. He's an Expy of Reed Richards, after all.

Tiramolla, an Italian humoristic comics character created in 1952 by Roberto Renzi, is a filiform guy with white face and hands and a (filiform) black body, similar to a doodle, wearing only top hat and bow-tie. He can stretch indefinitely, shrink and change shape. His stories can be silly or adventurous. Later he acquired a dog and a grandson with the same powers.

Fan Works

In CSI: Death by Chocolate, Mike Teavee, now an adult, still has side effects from being stretched ten years ago. As such, he is able to do such things as squeeze through a mail slot in a door and stretch the entire length of the precinct room (though hilarity ensues when he loses his grip). Once he is caught, his potential for slipping free of handcuffs is foiled my simply tying his arms in a square knot through the legs of an interrogation table so Brass can question him.

Zany To The Max: Takko Zarner can stretch his legs to any length necessary.

Films — Animated

Helen Parr, aka Elastigirl, from The Incredibles. The director, Brad Bird, has said in the DVD commentary that the family's powers are tied to their personality; as a busy mom, Helen Parr is pulled in many directions at once. Throughout the film, Helen is used as a life raft, a parachute, a fire blanket, and a giant set of cargo tiedowns.

Dave and the rest of the Octopi in Penguins of Madagascar, who stretch and contort themselves in a way very appropriate for boneless cephalopods.

In The Specials, rubber superheroes are very common in the Pacific northwest, apparently due to the flouridation of the water there. Unfortunately, said water is also carcinogenic, meaning rubber-men don't tend to live very long.

In the original X-Men film, Senator Kelly is given this power when Magneto induces artificial mutation in him. Unfortunately the side effects cause him to rapidly die by a (literal) Superpower Meltdown.

Folklore

Rokurokubi, a yokai from Japanese folklore, humanlike women that can stretch their necks.

Literature

Devils Cape has Kraken, former contortionist, who gains his stretching abilities in the same event that gives most of his carnival troupe their superpowers.

One of the primary abilities of the empowered characters in The Accidental Superheroine is the ability to control their body on a molecular level, allowing them to stretch and shape their flesh as long as they conserve their mass.

Hero Worship has Kent, who's a lesser version of this. He's pretty liquid by default, only stiffening up overnight and softening throughout the day. He wears different faces by sleeping in a mold. At the end of the book, he gains some additional powers, being able to intentionally turn liquid and then reform at the other side of a door, and to make his finger fit a keyhole to unlock the door.

Live-Action TV

Glen from Charmed is given this power as a result of a spell gone wrong,

Kamen Rider Double:The title protagonist can stretch his right limbs when equipped with the Luna Memory. The Luna Dopant from The Movie has the same abilities.

Power Rangers Dino Thunder: A U.S. exclusive, the Triassic Battlizer grants Conner the ability to stretch his limbs for attacking.

Parodied/deconstructed in thisMADtv sketch. The military has indeed created a "super soldier" with "rubberized muscles." The end result is that he lacks rigidity and muscle strength to do much of anything, including standing up.

One of the earliest and most-memorable villains on The X-Files was the liver-hungry mutant (?) Eugene Victor Tooms, from "Squeeze". He used his unnatural stretching ability to invade victims' homes and escape through tiny openings, and is a rare example of this trope played absolutely seriously and for horror.

KecoMaster is very well known throughout the deviantArt fandom (not to the extent of the 4 above, but enough that he can technically put himself in the Top 5 with them) for his more cartoony focus on the elastic power potential, and is currently working on a project to draw at least one elastic character from every person he could find who made one on dA!The first two pagesare right here.

Stretchable super-hero Stretch Armstrong was a large, gel-filled action figure first introduced by Kenner in 1976 and produced until 1980. A new version of the line (where he had a more comical face) was introduced in the 1990's. Two new versions were introduced in the 2010s, one which resembles the original, and one which ties in with the Netflix-exclusive cartoon Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters.

Mixels has the Flexers, sea creature-looking Mixels with elasticity powers. They are as smart as they are strong, and love to stretch their intellect as much as their bodies. Some of their abilities include stretching tentacles with whip-like powers, the ability to curl into a ricocheting rubber ball, and heads like rubber mallets.

Video Games

Dhalsim and Necro from Street Fighter. While Dhalsim can apparently stretch at will, Necro needs momentum, making him a more technical character and not as good at distance fighting.

Captain Silver from Battle Circuit. Here, rubber powers are interpreted as a form of shapeshifting, a la Plastic Man.

Sonic Unleashed's Sonic the Werehog has the ability to stretch his arms out at great lengths to make up for his lack of speed.

And years before the Werehog, Chaos was able to do the same stretching with some of its attacks in the early boss fights against it - although, it's technically a sentient creature of water, so it's not quite rubber. Fans think these two things are related due to how similar they are, however.

Ristar can also strech his arms out at great lengths to make up for his lack of a jump not twice his height (as is typical for most platformers). He also uses it to headbutt enemies.

Elastic Man of Brad Guigar's Evil, Inc., is a fairly straightforward Plastic Man ripoff down to him being the designated comic relief. Seems to be made entirely out of a green gel and cannot change colors.

Something*Positive has an animal example: the protagonist's cat, Choo-Choo Bear, was born without bones, and thus manipulates its body like a sort of adorable Blob Monster. More than one Crossover storyline has simply involved Choo-Choo Bear slithering down the drain and coming out in another webcomic.

Kaz the Jester in Work Sucks is an anthropomorphic rubber lion. So far he has been shown to squeak when slapped or slapping others.

Several characters in the Whateley Universe, including Jody Cooms (Plastic Girl) who has the 'Reed Richards' power set. She's more the friendly, helpful type rather than the fun-loving type. She's cute but not gorgeous and a little overweight, while she lives on a floor with a number of girls who would make Hollywood starlets binge in envy. Jody is Whateley's postergirl for the Mundane Utility of stretching powers, best demonstrated when Ayla Goodkind pays her to repaint his room.

Harlan "Reach" Sawyer is an especially interesting example: he has the Rubber Man power set, but doesn't have some of the Required Secondary Powers that would let him make really effective use of it; namely, while he can make his arm fifteen feet long, doing so stretches his muscles out so much that he can't do anything with his extra-long arm. Near the beginning of the story, however, a lab accident grants Reach the "exemplar" power set, which, among other things, includes Super Strength, so she (oh, yeah, that lab accident also turned him into a girl, though not permanently) is now much more effective. Harley is Whateley's poster girl for the Power Perversion Potential of this powerset as it it is explicitly mentioned that he/she can alter the size and shape of any body part for this purpose, something her girlfriend, who has a complimentary mutation involving nanomachines, greatly appreciates.

In the Global Guardians PBEM Universe, several characters have these powers (to the point that "Bendy Toy" has become a commonly used in-universe term for people with such powers). Bungie, a member of the Global Guardians team, is most notable, but other good examples are Embrace (a villainess who combines this with superhuman strength) and Elastorang, a sentient orangutan rubber man.

Static Shock has Adam Evans, The Rubberband Man. He's a little too serious and dour for his powers, but he makes good use of them fighting Static himself. Rubber doesn't conduct electricity, you know?

Madam Rouge from Teen Titans is known to be one of the most dangerous criminals in the Teen Titans world, and can stretch her limbs for entire city blocks, and is resistant to physical harm. She also has Voluntary Shapeshifting powers more generally, to the point of being able to accurately impersonate characters who look and sound nothing like her, but the "Rubber Man" trick is by far the most used in her arsenal.

Mr Tickle in The Mr. Men Show can stretch his arms to any length in order to tickle someone.

The premise of the children show Thin Pig, sort of: the eponymous character is bi-dimensional, like a piece of paper, and can fold himself into any tool necessary.

The 2-D Man of the Terrific Trio in the Batman Beyond episode "Heroes". His powers are nearly identical to that of Fantastic Four's Mr. Fantastic. Unfortunately, the entire Trio is Blessed with Suck, as their powers came at the cost of their decaying genetic structure. Eventually, they go psycho and do a Face–Heel Turn, forcing Batman to kill them. The 2-D Man is sucked into a high-powered fan and chopped into pieces.

Jake the Dog from Adventure Time can stretch and shape himself as well as grow or shrink. Notably, he's also displayed the ability to enlarge and reshape his internal organs at will, such as growing his liver to process a deadly poison.

Princess Bubblegum has a more limited version of this. Because she is made of bubblegum, she can stretch and mold her body to suit her needs, like a change of hairstyle, or replacing a severed arm.

Longarm Prime from Transformers Animated has the ability to stretch his limbs. (Possibly) subverted however, as it turns out it's just a simplified form of Shockwave's shapeshifting ablity.

Kif of Futurama has a mild form of this. Being an amphibian-like alien with no bones, he can stretch himself to a considerable degree, though this causes apparent discomfort and isn't really treated as a superpower.

Ehlers–Danlos syndrome is a kind of connective tissue disorder caused in most cases by a genetic defect in the formation of collagen, which leads to increased elasticity in the skin, joints, muscles and whatnot. Whilst that may sound cool, it goes straight into Blessed with Suck territory. Why? Skin and muscles can become more vulnerable and prone to tearing, joints can be very unstable and dislocate easily and, in the worst-case scenario, the arteries and heart valve can also be affected.

Before birth and the subsequent hardening of the skeleton, a fetus's limbs can bend like rubber to fit into the available space within the uterus.

Boneless invertebrates like octopodes, earthworms and slugs can stretch, flatten, and contort their entire bodies in the manner of this trope.

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